The team announced Tuesday, Brown underwent a right knee replacement surgery Monday performed by one of his former players. Dr. Michael Bolognesi, who played defensive back for Brown from 1989 to 1993, performed the surgery on the 67-year-old coach. “The surgery went really well with no issues or complications and he’ll begin a standard rehabilitation program in Chapel Hill immediately,” Bolognesi said in a release. “We don’t expect there to be any need to alter his summer schedule as it relates to team and football operations....

“There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,” Robinson said while speaking at the Asbury Baptist Church in Seagrove. The outcry over his comments added to existing public criticism for the politician’s efforts to alter how public schools can talk about racism. The White House, Human Rights Campaign, Equality North Carolina and top Democratic lawmakers are among those who have decried Robinson’s remarks, AP reported....

The Bison (2-0) are looking for their 40th straight victory, which would tie the mark set by Washington from 1908 to 1914 and inch the school closer to the legendary record set by Oklahoma from 1953 to 1957. MORE: Meet the first-year FBS coaches for 2021 What is that record? Can the Bison break it this season? When was the last time North Dakota lost? Sporting News looks at those questions....

The 39-year-old man, known by his Chinese name Zhu Xianjian, was jailed in the Jilin province in north-eastern China after fleeing North Korea in 2003. Jilin police said in a statement that Zhu had been detained at around 10 a.m. local time on Sunday morning, without providing anymore details. According to a statement from the public security bureau of Jilin city, the escapee was caught by local police in Fengman district and local residents said Zhu had hidden in a local abandoned tourist attraction, the state-run Chinese outlet Global Times reported on Sunday....

A confidential report soon to be submitted to the U.N. Security Council says anyone who travels to the event would likely be in violation of sanctions because it previously featured “discussions of cryptocurrency for sanctions evasion and money laundering,” Reuters reported. The 2020 Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference is set to take place in the capital between February 22-29, according to its website. Cybersecurity experts say North Korea has links to a hacking unit known as Lazarus, which is allegedly responsible for targeting banks, bitcoin exchanges, cash machines and ransomware outbreaks in an attempt to generate funds for the regime....

General Glen VanHerck, the head of the Northern Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that testing may be conducted “in the near future.” He didn’t mention any specific intelligence on the issue, but a resumption of the testing could increase tensions on an already strained relationship between North Korea and the United States. “The Kim Jong Un regime has achieved alarming success in its quest to demonstrate the capability to threaten the U....

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the IAEA report on Sunday, which posited that the plutonium-producing reactor at Yongbyon in North Korea had resumed operations last month. “Since early July, there have been indications, including the discharge of cooling water, consistent with the operation of the reactor,” the U.N. atomic agency’s report explained. Yongbyon’s reactor had reportedly been inactive since December 2018. The IAEA report also said that there are signs North Korea has been using a nearby laboratory in order to remove plutonium from spent nuclear fuel that was previously taken from the reactor....

New York City’s Pride organization, Heritage of Pride and the Capitol Hill Pride event in Seattle recently announced that they plan to continue to enforce a ban on police officers attending. On Saturday, June 11, police in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, announced that 31 individuals who were believed to be associated with Patriot Front, a white nationalist group, were arrested near a Pride event. According to reports, police said that they found the individuals were in possession of an “operations plan” that detailed plans to riot near the Pride festival....

The Fighting Irish overcame several offensive mistakes and a tremendous effort by Clemson’s D.J. Uiagalelei to beat the No. 1 team in the land 47-40 in double overtime Saturday night. It was the Irish’s first home win over a No. 1 team since the Game of the Century vs. top-ranked Florida State in 1993. The Seminoles ended up winning the championship that year, and Clemson will hope to do the same; but that’s a storyline for a future date....

What happens when anyone anywhere in the world has the power to be a TV reporter? On one level the revolutionary changes afforded by “small format” video can be exhilarating. Michael Rosenblum, a former network producer and publisher of the newsletter The Videojournalist, envisions a whole new “grammar” of television. Because the costs of TV production are declining so dramatically, there will be “a much larger creative pool to submit their work for broadcast, and a much broader scope for what television might ultimately produce....

My whole life, I have been haunted by not being able to give all of those athletes their fair opportunity. In Thailand alone, there are more than 65,000 professional fighters, most of them living in poverty, willing to do anything to get a job offer outside their home country. This is a scene I have watched in Brazil, Russia, Malaysia and even in Europe. This is not unique to combat disciplines....

“It is shameful to see Walmart succumb to the pressure of the anti-gun elites,” the gun-rights group said in a press release. “Lines at Walmart will soon be replaced by lines at other retailers who are more supportive of America’s fundamental freedoms.” Walmart announced just hours earlier that it would stop selling handgun ammunition, bullets for short-barrel rifles and handguns altogether in the State of Alaska, the last place where the retailer was engaged in handgun sales....

Specifically, the discovery could improve the design of the donut-shaped fusion reactors known as tokamaks. Nuclear fusion is the process of joining two atomic nuclei together in order to form a single, larger nucleus whilst releasing energy in the process. It’s the same process that powers our sun, where hydrogen atoms are fused together to form helium. Scientists have been working on nuclear fusion reactors for decades since fusion promises to be a clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy source....

When officers arrived at 1204 West Olive Street, they found Falls, still naked, attempting to clean the coop’s floor with his hands. Police spoke to the homeowner, who said he did not know the man and did not want him in the chicken coop. When the man arrived on the scene, he turned over a few plants on the porch before heading to the coop. Officers examined Falls and noted dilated pupils and erratic, jerky body movements....

Nuedexta is part of a drug class called n-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist. It is available as a capsule containing 20 milligrams dextromethorphan hydrobromide and 10 milligrams quinidine sulfate. Dextromethorphan binds to specific receptors in the brain that may cause PBA episodes. However, its exact mechanism of action is unknown. Quinidine blocks how quickly the body gets rid of dextromethorphan, increasing the level of dextromethorphan. What Is Nuedexta Used For? Nuedexta treats pseudobulbar affect symptoms, including frequent and sudden laughing or crying that occurs without your control....

On hand was Rocky, the mascot of the NBA’s Nuggets, who apparently A) is a jerk; B) hates kids; or C) is A and B. MORE: QB Misery Club | Matt Simms forgot how to play football | Preseason photos If we can’t trust mascots to take care of our kids, whom can we trust?

Last Jan. 27 the realness stretched beyond rhetoric. At the Speak Easy club in West Hollywood, N.W.A’s Dr. Dre (Andre Young) allegedly accosted Denise (Dee) Barnes, host of Fox TV’s rap program “Pump It Up!”, over a segment her show ran about the group. “He picks me up and proceeds to slam my face and the right side of my body up against the wall,” says Barnes, who stands 5 feet 3 inches and weighs 105 pounds....

The exchange was shared in a Twitter thread posted by @TheBlondeRN, a nurse in El Paso, Texas who was “recently transferred from the OR [operating room] to COVID ICU.” The nurse wrote on Monday: “I resigned from my job last week and I’ve been asked several times, ‘What was the breaking point?’ I don’t know a specific one, but I’ll share this: a thread.” Her thread, which has received more than 100,000 likes and 38,000 retweets, gave an account of a “very eye opening experience” the nurse had with a COVID-19 patient during her final shift,....

What time does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti release? According to a tweet from Newegg, the NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3060 Ti is set to go on sale at 9 a.m. EST December 2. While this time may vary across retailers, it’s mostly stayed the same for all of 2020’s hottest GPUs. The only exception to the rule is Best Buy, which typically waits about an hour or so after the listed time to dole out small amounts of stock at a time....